Aurélien Taché

Aurélien Taché (born 26 May 1984) is a French politician who was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the department of Val-d'Oise.[1] He was elected in 2017 as a member of La République En Marche! (LREM) but left the party in 2020,[2] and joined the Ecology Democracy Solidarity group.[3]

Aurélien Taché
Member of the National Assembly
for Val-d'Oise's 10th constituency
Assumed office
21 June 2017
Preceded byDominique Lefebvre
Personal details
Born (1984-05-26) 26 May 1984
Niort, France
NationalityFrench
Political partyLa République En Marche! (2016–2020)
Ecology Democracy Solidarity (2020 onwards)

Political career

In parliament, Taché serves on the Committee on Social Affairs, where was his parliamentary group's coordinator from 2017 until 2018,[4] and the Finance Committee. In addition to his committee assignments, he is part of the French-Tunisian Parliamentary Friendship Group and the French-Ukrainian Parliamentary Friendship Group.[5]

He left LREM in May 2020[6][2] and joined the Ecology Democracy Solidarity group.[3]

Political positions

Taché was considered a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron.[7]

In May 2018, Taché co-sponsored an initiative in favour of a bioethics law extending to homosexual and single women free access to fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF) under France's national health insurance; it was one of Macron's campaign promises and marked the president's first major social reform of his five-year term.[8][9]

In early 2018, Taché was one of several LREM members who joined an informal parliamentary working group on Islam set up by Florent Boudié in order to contribute to the government's bill aimed at better organising and supervising the financing of the Muslim faith in France.[10] In 2019, he was one of five members of the LREM parliamentary group who joined a cross-party initiative to legalize the distribution and use of cannabis.[11][12]

Led by Taché, Hugues Renson and Matthieu Orphelin, around 20 members of the LREM parliamentary group established a sub-group in late 2018 with a "wish to express a humanist, social and ecological sensibility and to better raise citizens' concerns"; the initiative was widely interpreted as the launch of a left-wing faction within the group.[13] In May 2020, he joined seven lawmakers in leaving LREM to join the new Ecology, Democracy, Solidarity group , depriving the president of an outright majority and raising pressure for more left-wing policies.[14][15] By June, he and five other ex-LREM deputies announced establishment of #Nous Demain, a "humanist, ecologist and feminist" political movement.[16]

Controversy

In October 2019, Taché publicly criticized his fellow LREM member and Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer in an interview with Le Point over the latter's stance on a woman's right to wear a hijab when accompanying school children. As a consequence, Blanquer issued a complaint against Taché at the LREM leadership and asked for a sanctions to be imposed on him.[17]

See also

References
  1. "Elections législatives 2017". Ministry of the Interior (in French). Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  2. "Le député Aurélien Taché, figure de l'aile gauche de LREM, quitte le parti présidentiel". Franceinfo (in French). 17 May 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  3. Le JDD. "L'appel des députés du groupe Ecologie démocratie solidarité "pour une relance durable et solidaire"". lejdd.fr (in French). Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  4. Mathilde Siraud (23 January 2018), À l'Assemblée, Ferrand tente de ressouder les Marcheurs Le Figaro.
  5. Aurélien Taché French National Assembly.
  6. Sarah Paillou (16 May 2020). "Aurélien Taché, député du Val-d'Oise : "Je quitte La République en marche"". Le Journal du Dimanche. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  7. Cédric Pietralunga and Alexandre Lemarié (20 October 2017), La République en marche: Les snipers de la Macronie Le Monde.
  8. Harriet Agnew (24 September 2019), France moves to extend IVF to gay and single women Financial Times.
  9. La PMA pour toutes, un acte d’égalité Libération, 29 May 2018.
  10. Alexandre Lemarié (23 November 2018), Des députés La République en marche s’attellent au sujet de l’islam de France Le Monde.
  11. Harriet Agnew (20 June 2019), French MPs push to legalise distribution and use of cannabis Financial Times.
  12. Marylou Magal (19 June 2019), Les députés LREM Person et Taché favorables à la légalisation du cannabis Le Figaro.
  13. Mathilde Siraud (20 December 2018), Des députés LaREM s'organisent pour peser Le Figaro.
  14. Olivier Philippe-Viela (19 May 2020), Nouveau groupe à l'Assemblée : qui sont les 17 députés qui font vaciller la majorité LREM? L'Express.
  15. Elizabeth Pineau and Michel Rose (20 May 2020), Defecting French lawmakers deprive Macron of outright parliament majority Reuters.
  16. Le député Aurélien Taché et d'autres ex-Marcheurs créent leur mouvement politique Le Figaro, 28 June 2020.
  17. Alexandre Lemarié (14 October 2019), Voile à l’école : Jean-Michel Blanquer demande des sanctions contre le député LRM Aurélien Taché Le Monde.
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